The shipping news [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents an Irwin Winkler production, a Lasse Hallström ; screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs; produced by Irwin Winkler, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Leslie Holleran ; directed by Lasse Hallström.
Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glen, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, Cate Blanchett. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.
Summary:
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
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